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The head of state of Germany has changed at various times since
the unification of the German Empire in 1871. The first head of
state was the Emperor (Kaiser). After the Germany Empire
collapse, the Weimar Republic was formed, with
the Reichspräsident ("President of Germany" in
English) replacing the emperor as the German head of state. While
the intent was that the presidency would share power with the
chancellor and the Reichstag, the instability of the
Republic resulted in a very powerful presidency.

In 1933, Adolf Hitler attained the office of chancellor (the
head of government). Upon the death of President Paul von
Hindenburg in 1934, Hitler also assumed the office of head of
state, changing the title from "President" to "Führer". This
ti…

Throughout the majority of its history, France has been a
monarchy and is generally considered to have begun with the
Frankish Kingdom in 486. In 1792, Louis XVI was overthrown, and the
First Republic was established. Executive authority shifted to a
number of bodies throughout the First Republic, finally ending in
the Consulate, which fell to the First Empire of Napoleon
Bonaparte (who'd previously become Consul for Life) in 1804.
Napoleon was overthrown in 1814, and made an ultimately
unsuccessful bid to regain the crown the following year. In the
meantime, the House of Bourbon was restored.

The Bourbon Restoration lasted until the so-called July Monarchy
of 1830, when Louis-Phillipe I displaced Charles X and proclaimed
himself "Monarch o…

During the history of the Soviet Union, there was no office
entitled "Leader" of the Soviet Union. The General Secretary
of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was "leadership"
position of Soviet Union for most of the country's history.

Vladimir Lenin wanted the executive be a collegiate body
dominated by the Communist Party. Throughout the 1920s, however,
Joseph Stalin shaped the minor bureaucratic position of General
Secretary into the party's de jure leader, and in turn made
the office into the Soviet Union's de facto leader. Even
though Stalin was not formally re-elected to the position by the
17th Party Congress in 1934, he remained the Soviet Union's
undisputed leader, becoming the country's head of government in
1941. He never beca…

Neville Chamberlain's efforts to appease Adolf Hitler in 1938
merely delayed the inevitable Second World War, which broke out in
September, 1939. As Germany drove across Europe and subdued France,
Chamberlain was forced to resign. He was succeeded by Winston
Churchill, who was forced to ally with two tyrants, President Joe
Steele of the U.S. and Premier Leon Trotsky of the Soviet Union to
defeat the rampaging tyranny of Hitler.

So, as a consequence of have liked Tor.Com and Alternate
History.com on Facebook, I am informed that another HT story will
be appearing on tor.com sometime in the future. The story is
called "Cayos in the Stream". Here is the image for the
story:

Not sure what else, if anything, we can glean from that pic.
It's a nice one, though. TR (talk) 21:34, May 16, 2013 (UTC)

After the Second Great War,or as it is known in these modern
times:GW2,the defunct CSA was decimated.Most cities and towns(like
Richmond and Lexington)were heavily damaged.A whole generation of
men were lost in the fighting.The Negro population were
horrendously reduced by the genocidal policies of Jake Featherston.
In other words,the South was in tatters.

And so,the Democratic US president Harry Truman(lead the country
from 1948 to 1950) was the first one to start the rebuilding of the
South...in the image of the US.Truman realized the South must be
developed again to truly join the US of A.Without this visionary
man,the process to allow people in the South for the US Congress
and full-fledged citizens of the US would…

Why I think Turtledove Is betraying his loyal ReadershipTurtledovians of the world,revolt!You have nothing to lose
but your boredom!

Hi,I'm Zhukov15 and I'm here to tell the truth.Truth
is,Turtledove is betraying us.How you may ask.By neglecting
Southern Victory.Ever since I finished Settling Accounts,I am
hungering for more.But more isn't coming.For some reason,Turtledove
hasn't continued the series like he should have,which would have
garnered him more recognition.I know most of you are gonna disagree
with me but SV is the work that makes the most of readers want
more!But he isn't obliging them!Why you may ask again.Because he
paying more attention to upstart new series.In my eyes,that is a
serious betrayal.

Around 90% of the Blacks still left in The South (then CSA) in
1941 were killed during the war. A few thousand Blacks were
actually still living in Richmond when the US army took over the
city in 1944. Most Blacks who survived the war in exile decided to
remain abroad; however, a small number returned to The South.
Additionally, approximately 15,000 Blacks survived the
concentration camps or survived by going into hiding. The
overwhelming majority wished to emigrate and lived in
US-administered refugee camps, remaining isolated from The Southern
society. After 1947, most left The South; however, 10,000 to 15,000
remained, forming the basis of a new Black community. In 1950 they
founded their unitary representative organization, the Central…

Here's another fanfic based on the Worldwar series: Worldwar:
Discovering the Balance. This takes in the Stargate Universe in
which the Race were 60 years late in arriving to Earth, but the
invasion is fortunately averted as SG-1 with Asgard-based
spaceships engaged Atvar at gunship diplomacy. In which SG-1
negotiated for the Race to leave Earth alone and settle another
desert-like planet discovered by Stargate Command or their home
planet is nuked with energy weapons from orbit.

I really love the scenario of the story as to what if the Race
had to deal with modern day Earth, in this case the Stargate Earth.
Instead of outright destroying the Race, Earth's various
governments decide not to and be simply "neighbors" with the Race,
and a lengt…

Last year, I read a AH story on Fanfic.com and posted on the
Spacebattle forum and http://counter-factual.net, which pokes a
crossover with Worldwar with SM Stirling's Domination of the Draka
and John Ringo's Legacy of the Aldenata series. It takes
with the Lizards having their ass kicked hard with the much more
technological prowess of humankind and the notorious Domination of
Draka during WW2 and finally evicted in the 1960s thanks to a
Draka-made biological virus laced in ginger. By the 21st Century,
the story picks up with the Legacy of the Aldenata series
with humanity offered by the Galactic Federation (in which they had
also had approach the "Race") in fighting against aggressive and
locust-like aliens known as the Posleen.

Our recent addition of elections and the prospect of HT giving
us some changes in SV and TWPE down the pike has prompted me to
play with this comparison idea again. I'm doing it here so we don't
have unwanted/unready articles. Comment or not.

So if I'm reading your last description correctly, the Bloc
controls enough votes that anyone who doesn't have a majority
government needs to include them in the equation, and that means
making overtures. But if a leader gets too cozy with the Bloc,
Anglophone voters will punish his party?

Actually, if the Bloc is so committed to seperatism, how does
it have MPs at all? Don't they need to take an oath of allegiance
to the crown? The nearest equivalent I can think of in the
Commonwealth is Sinn Fein: However many seats they win (five in
last year's election) remain vacant because they will not swear
their loyalty to a nation they are desperate to ge…

It seems the AHL better board does still exist:
http://thebetterboard.yuku.com/directory. In case anyone cares. TR
21:58, January 26, 2011 (UTC)

I wonder how many hours of my life I spent running those boards
and dissecting TL-191 novels, with you lot being my other big
social circle. Seems like it was another lifetime when I was a
messageboard administrator. Jelay14 03:54, January 27, 2011
(UTC)

I just reread a chat I'd had with Mak in March '06 in which I
insisted McClellan could never have been elected President. He
pointed out, much more circumspectly and politely than usual (The
Great Irish Flame War was only two months and change away) that I
was really grasping at straws to find ways of…

I have to put this topic up given the crap-load of that TD has
been using throughout his work. So give a comment on rather TD's
writings amuses you or annoy the hell out of you and think that he
is going senile like a "grand pappy" reminiscing on old "wise"
sayings.

UPDATE 11/21/2012

Here's some mediocre liners from Supervolcano I found on
Goodreads.com.:

It didn't feel too cold once he got used to it. He'd been in
pools that were worse. What it would feel like come February was
bound to be a different question, but it wasn't February, thank
god.

He muttered a stream of obscenities as he went. Maybe they
were what made his breath smoke. More likely, it was just the
cold.

"Those trees weren't down two years ago," larry said in a
voice that brook…

I just finished the third book Liberating Atlantis, thus
completing the trilogy. I'm not sure if anyone will agree witth me,
but I believe the series thus far holds great promise. What the
series is to me is not so much a timeline of a mythical 8th
continent, but the legacy of a famous family. Edward Radcliffe
helped found the first settlement in Atlantis. Richard Radcliffe
killed the Earl of Warwick (a.k.a. the "King" of Atlantis). Red
Rodney Radcliffe was one of the most feared pirates of Avalon.
William Radcliff ended the Golden Age of Piracy once and for all by
sacking Avalon and killing Red Rodney. Victor Radcliff helped the
English win the French and Spanish War, and later led the
Atlanteans to victory in the Atlantean War of I…

Personally, I really enjoyed the Timeline 191, or Southern
Victory, series by Harry Turtledove. My favorite segments of the
series were the Great War trilogy and Settling
Accounts quadrilogy (That is the correct term, right?
Quadrilogy?) However, as much as I enjoyed the series, I'd like to
see where Mr. Turtledove takes it from here. We end the series with
a sort of Cold War between Germany, the United States, and Japan.
But what will be the result? A war in which two of the powers team
up to conquer the other, or will it remain a three-way Cold War?
Not to mention the new situation in North America. What will be the
result of suddenly ending over 80 years of independence for the
Confederate States of America? Obviously it will be a…